Toshiba Tecra M1 CPU and Memory Upgrade

[zochus15]

Hello there. I have a few questions wich you guys may be able to answer for me as I am unsure if I am right here.

I own an old Toshiba Tecra M1 laptop which is absolute fantastic for browsing internet and my dad is using it for over 4 years now and it never failed. It has screen that's not keeping in its position (broken hinges) but otherwise is great.

I noticed earlier on that It shows CPU speed of 400Mhz or 600Mhz, am not sure now. I cannot make it use full power of 1,4GHz. Maybe someone knows how to do it.

I've just ordered new CPU Pentium M 1.6Ghz which is SL5YU. Should receive it by the end of the week and hopefully fit it in.

I am also about to order new memory as there is currently 512Mb which is quite not enough as if there are many tabs open on Google Chrom it may cuse the Screen of Death (blue screen) to pop up. This hovewer happed twice since we got this laptop.




I hope you will be able to help me with how to repair the hinges. Well its used as stationary laptop so its alway either open or closed but its annoying to put something at the back to keep it open. And I will also need help with boosting the CPU to its original 1,4 speed (1,6 speed soon).


Thanks a lot,

David.

[gshv]

Pentium M processors have a feature, called Enhanced SpeedStep. This features clocks down the CPU when it's underutilized, and returns to stock frequency when it has something to work on. To see actual processor frequency run something CPU intensive in background, and then check your frequency using CPU-Z or similar program. If it still reports 400 or 600 MHz then you have a problem. I suspect it will report correct CPU frequency.

Gennadiy

[zochus15]

I have actually tried running some applications in the back to force as much load on CPU but this hasn't helped. I guess there is some way to turn this Speed lowering option in bios somehow but I cannot figure it out.

If this is the CPU problem it won't be soon as I am now waiting for 1.6GHz Pentium M.

I've looked for hinges on ebay but they are still 10 pounds +PP so I'll take laptop apart at the morning and try to figure out some DIY way of fixing them

[zochus15]

Hello there. I've just fitted the new CPU 1,6 Pentium M but still it runs at 598,5Mhz which annoys me as I run Windows 7 Starter on this machine and it still isnt using its full power


Any idea of how to make it work properly?

[danitanev]

I don't know if you solved your problem - I have similar problem with running Intel Pentium M 760 1.86 GHz, M 750 1.73 GHz or M 735 1.7 GHz on my Toshiba Satellite A85-S107, but mine is initially using Intel Celeron M 360/M 360J 1.4 GHz and now it works with Intel Celeron M 390 1.7 GHz. All these Pentium M's I tried are the same socket and they work but only on their low frequency mode of 800 or 600 MHz even under 100 % load. Windows XP Power Management settings are helpless about it and the BIOS (Phoenix 1.0b - updated to version 1.3) has no options to set - so the problem is I guess in the BIOS and maybe the Motherboard too - it's Toshiba HBT10-2 which is very poor. The PC Wizard 2010 says the Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST) - which optimizes the Pentium M frequency is Disabled (but I have no such option in the BIOS or Windows XP.
PS - I tried to find out how can I update or edit the whole BIOS with no luck for now!